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Faculty
Judge David Joseph Attard Judge David Joseph Attard is the President of the Chamber for Marine Environment Disputes since October 2020. He is also the former director at IMO International Maritime Law Institute of Malta as well as a professor who teaches law of the sea. Judge Attard is retained by numerous Governments to advise on international legal matters, in particular the international law regulating exploration and exploitation of marine resources. He led numerous teams in negotiations to delimit single maritime boundaries, continental shelf/exclusive economic zone boundaries and fishing zone boundaries. Judge Attard received his PhD in Philosophy from University of Oxford in 1986 and he joined University of Malta at the same year. He became the UNEP Chair of Environmental Diplomacy, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in 1990 and the head of the Maltese Delegation to the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the Framework Convention on Climate Change, Washington, D.C./Geneva/ Nairobi in 1991. He was a visiting Professor of International Law, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (1994), a senior visiting lecturer in College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing (1995), and a visiting senior research fellow, University of Oxford (1998-1999). In 2011, he became the chancellor of the University of Malta. Besides, Judge Attard has published numerous articles on international law and in particular law of the sea. Last year, he was awarded with International Maritime Prize of the International Maritime Organization.
Professor Vasco Becker-Weinberg Dr. Vasco Becker-Weinberg is the president of IPDM–The Portuguese Institute of the Law of the Sea and a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Lusófona, teaching Constitutional Law, Public International Law and EU Law. He is also the founder and former coordinator of the Masters on Law and Economics of the Sea at NOVA School of Law, where he lectures on the Law of the Sea and EU Law of the Sea. He has researched at prominent academic institutions and written and published extensively on the Law of the Sea. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Portuguese Yearbook of the Law of the Sea. He has been on several delegations to international fora and often advises on public international law and the law of the sea matters. More recently he has been part of the Portuguese delegation to the intergovernmental conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. He has also been involved in the drafting of policies and legislation on many ocean governance subjects. Dr. Becker-Weinberg is also currently Law Clerk at the Portuguese Constitutional Court and was previously Legal Advisor to the Portuguese Secretary of the Sea and a full-time scholar at the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs at the University of Hamburg.
Professor Wang Kuan-Hsiung Dr. Wang Kuan-Hsiung obtained his PhD degree in International Law from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom in 1997. He is a professor at the Graduate Institute of Political Science, Taiwan Normal University. Dr. Wang actively participates in maritime academic activities concerning international law of the sea. He is a member of the board of directors of the Chinese Society of International Law, the Association of International Relations (Taiwan), and the Institute of Marine Affairs and Policy (Taiwan). He is also a member of the Study Group of Asian State Practice of Domestic Implementation of International Law of the International Law Association in London. In the field of academic services, Dr. Wang serves as the editor of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (English version), Chinese (Taiwan) Review of International and Transnational Law (Chinese version), Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law, Asian Yearbook of International Law, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy. Dr. Wang’s teaching and research interests are mainly in public international law, the law of the sea, East and South China Sea issues, and marine policy. For those research fields, he mainly focuses on the sustainable utilization of fishery resources and pays attention to the feasibility of solving disputes through joint development. He was a visiting scholar at Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada (2007), and the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia (2013). Dr. Wang contributes his research works to various reputable academic journals, such as Ocean Development and International Law, Pacific Review, and others.
Professor Zou Keyuan Dr. Zou Keyuan is the professor of Law School of Dalian Maritime University. He specializes in international law, in particular law of the sea and international environmental law. He has published over 200 books, book chapters and journal articles in English. His latest books include Maritime Cooperation in Semi-Enclosed Seas: Asian and European Experiences (2019), and The Belt and Road Initiative and the Law of the Sea (2020). Dr. Zou is a member of Editorial Boards of International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Ocean Development and International Law, Journal of international Wildlife Law and Policy, Marine Policy, Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, Chinese Journal of International Law, and Advisory Boards of Global Journal of Comparative Law, Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, and Koran Journal of international Comparative Law.
Professor Zhang Xinjun Dr. Zhang Xinjun is a Professor of Public International Law at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His research interests include the Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, Non-proliferation Law and the Law of Treaties. He is the Director of the Center for the Law of the Sea Study in Tsinghua Law School. Dr. Zhang’s Publication includes: The U.S. Promotion of Internationalization and the Legal Order of the South China Sea: Sovereignty, Maritime Rights and Dispute Settlement, Oriental Law (2022 in Chinese); Dispute Settlement Under Disarmament Treaties, in Hélène Ruiz Fabri (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (OUP 2021); Law and Politics in Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy, Intellectual Property Publishing House (2020 Springer, forthcoming); The U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations in the Shifting Legal Order of the Seas, Nanjing University Law Journal (2020 in Chinese); Jurisdictional and Substantive Aspects in the Application of UNCLOS Article 83(3) in Recent International Decisions, in Myron H. Nordquist (ed.) Cooperation and Engagement in the Asia-Pacific Region, Brill Nijhoff (2020), pp. 99-116; Bifurcation in Inter-State Cases, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 40, No. 4 (2019), pp. 937-88; Nonappearance and Procedural Delicacy: Some Observations on the Tribunal's Handling of Jurisdiction in the South China Sea Arbitration, Journal of International Law and Diplomacy, Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 50-76.
Professor Shi Yubing Dr. Shi Yubing is a Professor and Vice Dean of the South China Sea Institute, School of Law at Xiamen University, China. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of China Oceans Law Review, a peer-reviewed bilingual Journal that has been jointly operated by five universities from China including Chinese Macao, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 2005. Dr. Shi received his PhD in law from Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security, University of Wollongong, Australia in 2014 and served as a lecturer at the Law School of UOW before he joined Xiamen University in 2015. His research interests include international law of the sea and the legal protection of the marine environment. He has published widely on marine environmental law, shipping regulation and BBNJ negotiations. He is the author of a monograph entitled Climate Change and International Shipping: The Regulatory Framework for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions published by Brill Nijhoff in 2017. Dr. Shi is a member and adviser to Chinese Delegation to BBNJ Intergovernmental Conferences held in UN Headquarter in New York. |
